The Comparative Safety of Litholapaxy and Lateral Lithotomy in Boys
ثبت نشده
چکیده
De. Keegan discussed tins question {Lancet, Jan. 16th, 1897). Mr. H. G. Boiling had published statistics (British Medical Journal, May 5th, 1894, and March 9th, 1895) which showed that lateral lithotomy and litholapaxy are safer operations in boys than the suprapubic operation. Dr. Keegan adds that this opinion is in accordance with Indian experience, and "suprapubic lithotomy in boys has made no progress in India and is never likely to do so." This is made clear by the following table collected by Surgeon-Colonel O'Connell Raye (then InspectorGeneral of Civil Hospitals in the Punjab):?
منابع مشابه
The Suprapubic Operation or Litholapaxy
To the Editor of "The Indian Medical Gazette." Sir,?Lieut.-Colonel Vivian B. Bennett, in his important article 011 the treatment of vesical calculus which appeared in last November's issue of this Gazette, wrote : " In the Indian Medical Gazette of last June, Keegan has written a paper objecting strongly to the Suprapubic Operation." If Liieut.-Colonel Bennett will peruse my paper he will find ...
متن کاملLitholapaxy in Male Children and Male Adults, with Notes of Three Cases of Lithotomy at the Indore Charitable Hospital
LITHOLAPAXY IN MALE CHILDREN AND MALE ADULTS, WITH NOTES OF THREE CASES OF LITHOTOMY : A THIRD SERIES OF CASES PERFORMED AT THE INLORE CHARITABLE HOSPITAL. BY Surgeon-Major D. F. Keegan, M.D. (Dublin). Since the 24th May 1885, thirteen patients have been admitted into the Indore Charitable Hospital suffering from stone in the bladder. Six of these patients were boys, varying in age from to 11 y...
متن کاملFurther Experiences in the Surgery of Stone in the Bladder
males, varying in age from fourteen to eightyfive years, 35 male children and boys from two to thirteen years, two young girls and one woman. From 73 of these patients I extracted the stone by litholapaxy; from two boys I removed the stone by lateral lithotomy, and the woman's stone was extracted by urethral lithotomy. The mortality attending these 76 operations was 4, and I rejected no csise, ...
متن کاملLitholapaxy in Male Children and Male Adults
Indore Hospital. On 13 of these cases SurgeonMajor Caldecott performed litholapaxy, and from one boy aged ten, whose urethra was very small, he extracted a phosphatic stone weighing 577 grains by lateral lithotomy. Surgeon-Major Cahlecott's cases were all successful. Since my return from leave to the preseut date, 27 patients, including 2 females, have been admitted into hospital suffering from...
متن کاملSome Reasons Why Lithotomy Is Still Performed
These considerations in favour of lithotomy are not put forward in any spirit of prejudice to litholapaxy, but rather as an attempt at an explanation why lithotomy is still so largely performed in India. The impression of modern literature is that lithotomy is seldom necessary and seldom performed. This surely cannot be the case in the practice of surgeons in India. In very contradiction to thi...
متن کامل